It is the day after Christmas, and President Trump has unleashed a blistering attack on ISIS targets in Nigeria, specifically targeting those responsible for the mass slaughter of Christians across the region. This is, of course, a projection of American power by President Trump that is completely consistent with his longstanding position of protecting Christians around the world.
00:01:13.840It is amazing that just as President Richard Nixon bombed Haiphong Harbor, mined and bombed Haiphong Harbor in Hanoi in North Vietnam to bring the North Vietnamese ultimately to the table for peace talks in Paris,
00:01:33.800which ended that war ahead of schedule, based on what the Pentagon and the defense contractors wanted.
00:01:41.980President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack, air attack against ISIS, specifically in Nigeria.
00:01:52.000The President has made it very clear that the mass slaughter of Christians or Jews is unacceptable anyplace in the world.
00:01:59.780And he will use American power to deliver a powerful and deadly strike, in this case, with the cooperation and intelligence from the Nigerian government.
00:02:11.420The strikes were carried out using what is thought to be six Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from a U.S. Navy ship in the Gulf of Guinea, hitting two ISIS camps directly.
00:02:23.260Sources consistently report saying that there were more than a dozen total Tomahawk missiles fired.
00:02:31.460You know, if you have to report as to the total tonnage of bombs dropped or the exact payload weight, each conventional Tomahawk missile, the four or five variant, typically use a warhead with approximately a thousand pounds of explosives.
00:02:48.580So with more than a dozen Tomahawk missiles, the total payload would be in excess of six tons of bombs, making a very strong statement by President Donald Trump.
00:03:02.420President Trump announced that the U.S. forces carried out these precision airstrikes in northwest Nigeria on Christmas night, targeting ISIS militants responsible, as I say, for the mass slaughter of Christians across the region.
00:03:16.340The operation was conducted, as I say, in coordination with the Nigerian government, following weeks of escalating violence and warnings from the White House and extensive consultation between the government.
00:03:32.680And the president described the terrorists as brutal and barbaric, described their attacks against Christian communities.
00:03:41.020President Trump said, and I quote, these killings reached levels not seen in years, maybe centuries.
00:03:46.340I warned these terrorists that if they did not stop slaughtered Christians, there would be hell to pay.
00:03:54.300This is, of course, a projection of American power by President Trump is completely consistent with his longstanding position of protecting Christians around the world.
00:04:07.400Secretary of the war, Pete Hegseth, was backing the president up, saying the strikes fulfilled the president's earlier warning.
00:04:15.100Specifically, Secretary Hegseth said the killing of innocent Christians must end.
00:04:22.680He also, again, thanked the Nigerian government for its cooperation.
00:04:26.760The action follows a surge in jihadist violence across Nigeria, including deadly attacks on churches and mass kidnappings of anyone who worships Jesus Christ as Lord.
00:04:41.100In response, the administration has announced new visa restrictions targeting individuals involved specifically in terrorist activities and religious persecution, a move that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, surprisingly emerging from his neocon past to be one of the stalwarts of Trumpism, said the perpetrators would be held accountable.
00:05:05.940American foreign policy has not been concerned with the well-being of Christians in a long time, certainly not under Obama, certainly not under Biden.
00:05:27.380I don't ever like to buy anything new.
00:05:30.520And you can live, you know, a lavish, appearing lifestyle.
00:05:36.660You can live in high style, but you don't have to pay prices, you know, the retail price for anything if you're prepared to shop online.
00:05:46.960I have written a long article about how much I like Etsy.com and Poshmark.com.
00:05:53.820I mean, you have to be prepared to shop, but basic things like Gucci loafers or a Davey Blue Blazer or a tasteful regimental necktie can be found at bargain prices.
00:06:06.960And therefore, you don't have to be wealthy to be well-dressed.
00:06:10.120You can find gently used sometimes what they call new old stock, which means never use things online for a fraction of their original retail price.
00:06:20.360I'm talking about, you know, a garment or a pair of shoes that was once $3,000 that can now be had for $100.
00:06:28.820I'm talking about ties that were once $110, now selling for $17.
00:06:35.200And one of my great passions is always have an extensive collection of cocktail shakers, that device that you use for shaking up the perfect gin or vodka martini.
00:06:48.040And they come in all types of nice, cool art deco designs.
00:06:54.000And some, you find them in the shape of a penguin or in the shape of a dirigible.
00:07:32.160The key to a great cocktail shaker is that it does not, when it gets cold and it freezes and expands, it's impossible to get the top or the cap off.
00:07:42.900That is, by definition, not a great cocktail shaker.
00:07:46.480Of course, it was Richard Nixon who gave me his very secret martini recipe, which he referred to as the silver bullet.
00:07:55.360So Nixon was pretty reticent to not giving a small talk and certainly not retrospective in any way, except for after he'd had a couple of what he called silver bullets.
00:08:06.100In his case, a gin martini, which case he got absolutely loquacious.
00:09:22.100And I've never been able to smell that juniper smell since then.
00:09:25.800But so I really point out that in Nixon's famous recipe, he would say if there are not tiny shards of ice on the surface of the glass, then you've screwed it up.
00:09:41.720So obviously you shake your vodka vigorously.
00:09:45.280You pour it into the chilled glass and then you retrieve the bottle of olives that have been basically marinating in vermouth.
00:09:55.800And you drop one or two of them and there you have the famous silver bullet.
00:10:01.400It has to be ice cold for it to be good.
00:10:21.620Then he would follow that with brandy.
00:10:24.940And then he later in the evening would have a couple of highballs.
00:10:29.260He had an extraordinary capacity for alcohol.
00:10:32.100The man who led Britain in the darkest days of World War II, a man who recognized the dangers of international communism, but only did so in many ways too late.
00:11:08.920And I got a notice from the local UPS store where it should have been shipped that I had to pay duty on it, but that they did not have a link to the website where I had to go to pay the duty.
00:11:25.420And I had received no notification in email or text that duty was due.
00:11:32.440I went to the local UPS store where I have a box, and they explained that I could not pay it using an ATM or a credit card through them or through Apple Pay, that I had to connect with the USPS international website.
00:11:50.140They said, well, we can give you an 800 number for them so you can call them and explain that you want to pay the duty, and then they'll deliver this package from Germany here after you pay the duties and the customs charges, taxes, if any.
00:12:07.740I would find out that it would have, you know, six and eight hour, 20 hour waits for customer service.
00:12:14.360Meanwhile, I still have no email notifying me that the that my cocktail shaker is sitting in a locker someplace in South Florida and can't be delivered to my box until I pay this duty.
00:12:28.640The whole thing becomes an extraordinary bureaucratic nightmare.
00:12:32.660And what makes it even odder is that the deliverman for USPS, who somehow has my phone number but not my email address, texts me a photo of him holding up an open cell phone and showing that his phone is open to the link where I have to go to pay the duties.
00:12:53.940Of course, he doesn't respond to my text messages to him.
00:12:57.280How he got my number, I have no idea, but it was an extraordinary game.
00:13:04.780I can't tell you how much I think that you can find amazing things, arts and crafts, custom-made clothing, the old Ralph Lauren line.
00:13:19.080He brought back Ivy League style, classic American style.
00:13:21.980You find all these things online, they don't have to be new, and you can dress like a king or dress like you went to private school, even if you didn't make it through the first grade.
00:14:16.340Finding men and women of truly great style today and this year.
00:14:20.620Each year gets harder and harder and harder.
00:14:23.740But we have an incredible list this week.
00:14:26.280And again, I will release that, as I have, every year on New Year's Day.
00:14:31.280The only year I didn't do so was when I was gagged by a federal judge and unallowed to comment on anything during the Mueller witch hunt days.
00:14:42.920But I'm still picking out the key pictures.
00:15:16.160I appreciate those warm words from J.D. Vance.
00:15:19.880J.D. Vance gave one of the most important and, I think, impactful speeches I have seen at the Turning Point USA's America Fest in Phoenix, Arizona last weekend.
00:15:30.180It was truly inspirational and very focused in telling conservatives, Trump supporters, free thinkers, independents, people not captive of the far left to stay focused on the dangers of the progressive Marxist left instead of fighting with each other.
00:15:47.320Some criminals are just so dumb, it's beyond belief.
00:15:50.560Florida Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Sheriff Elias McCormick is facing additional major scrutiny after she appeared to digitally try to remove a luxury diamond ring from her Christmas Day social media post.
00:16:05.500This is just weeks after she was indicted on federal charges tied to stealing $5 million from FEMA.
00:16:14.500She's currently under indictment, but she then has her picture taken wearing a $109,000 diamond bracelet.
00:16:27.180Then she tries to actually delete it from her images after it is too late.
00:16:34.440Critics say the Congresswoman is trying to erase the evidence of the alleged corruption.
00:16:39.360This after she previously is photographed wearing a gold bracelet that was estimated to be worth $300,000.
00:16:47.420All of this controversy stems from a November 19th federal indictment charging the Democrat Congresswoman Sheriff Phyllis McCormick and her brother Edwin with orchestrating a scheme to siphon off $5 million in FEMA funds intended for COVID-19 emergency service.
00:17:05.300Prosecutors say their family-owned company, the Trinity Health Care Service, inflated invoices through a decimal point manipulation that resulted in massive federal overpayments.
00:17:16.660According to the indictment against the Democrat Congresswoman, some money was laundered through various accounts used to pay for things like a 3.4 carat yellow diamond purchased from a New York jeweler.
00:17:28.860That ring later appeared in the Congresswoman's official House portrait.
00:17:32.400House records also show that the Congresswoman loaned her own campaign $6.2 million money.
00:17:39.700Prosecutors say it was derived from various fraudulent schemes.
00:17:44.100She pled not guilty to all 15 charges, including wire fraud, money laundering, and illegal campaign financing.
00:17:51.940And the Democrat Congresswoman Sheriff Phyllis McCormick was released on $60,000 bond.
00:17:59.580Her original victory was celebrated as a victory for diversity and female empowerment.
00:18:08.260But all we got here was a DEI fraudster up to her nose in thievery.
00:18:35.660According to Just the News, two criminal attorneys who represent former CIA director John Brennan both publicly acknowledge that their client is the target of a federal investigation into his activities,
00:18:50.840while CIA director specifically, of course, around the Russian collusion hoax that he helped create.
00:18:57.900And they've actually filed an action with a federal judge to ask a judge to order the Justice Department to stop any further investigation of the role of John Brennan.
00:19:10.580So Brennan is this is a this is a Hail Mary press.
00:19:14.460He's hoping that he gets a liberal activist judge like so many of these controversial cases do and that he at a minimum gets a temporary hold against an ongoing investigation.
00:19:29.280Now, I have said for some time that that I believed that you had plausibly a long ranging seditious conspiracy, meaning the issue that the the the the the coup d'etat that begins in a White House meeting with Barack Obama in the chair.
00:19:51.780I believe it is April 17th of 2016, where the Hillary plan is basically approved and where they utilize the the falsified intelligence assessment regarding Trump's ties to Moscow based on the completely fraudulent steel dossier that continues into the full blown Russian collusion hoax,
00:20:15.340including Jake Sullivan, Hillary Clinton's national security advisor, later Biden's national security advisor, announcing that Trump had a computer terminal link with with the a bank in Moscow,
00:20:33.780the Alpha Bank in Moscow, which turns out to be completely and totally untrue.
00:20:38.740But that particular smear was approved by Hillary herself as well as Jake Sullivan.
00:20:46.260So the the outrageousness of this criminal Brennan, who is a convert to to radical Muslim, who is who who I believe as the station chief in Riyadh signed the visa for four of the hijackers who we are told attacked America on 9-11.
00:21:07.900John Brennan, John Brennan, who got caught red handed spying on a Senate committee that was investigating his use of illegal torture.
00:21:24.460The same John Brennan who lied the steel dossier into that assessment, even though he knew it was faulty.
00:21:31.900This is the same John Brennan who signed on and and helped move the 51 intelligence assets, former and current, who said that Hunter Biden's laptop and its shocking contents of bribery and money laundering and pay to play and involvement with the Chinese and the Russians and so much more,
00:21:57.180as well as Hunter's depravity and drug use was not real, that it was the product of Russian disinformation, which, of course, turned out not to be true.
00:22:23.18017 percent of voters told one poll of voters who said they voted for Joe Biden now say, had they known that Hunter Biden's laptop contents were real, they would not have voted for Biden.
00:22:36.520So you see the importance of suppressing this story.
00:22:39.620And you can find the full compendium of Hunter Biden's laptop if you go to Marco Polo dot org, Marco Polo dot org.
00:22:52.360That is the nonprofit organization headed by Garrett Ziegler, who is a relative of Ron Ziegler, who was the secretary of the press spokesman, press secretary, essentially communications director for President Richard Nixon.
00:23:09.620And Ziegler has painstakingly and faithfully recreated the entire contents of Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:23:18.540He is thoughtfully added footnoting so you can understand it a little better, but he hasn't changed the substance.
00:23:23.520And he has blurred the most pornographic of pictures.
00:23:27.660So it's safe to have your copy around the house.
00:23:31.720It is very, very much worth looking at the gall of John Brennan saying you can't investigate me because of national security gives one hope.
00:23:43.280Fox had announced some weeks ago that the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida, the logical place for this case, had sent out subpoenas to Brennan as well as Andrew McCabe and Lisa Page of the FBI and others.
00:24:03.240Now, the reason I say Florida is because if this is a continuing seditious conspiracy, I would argue it's born in the White House.
00:24:11.300It goes through the 2016 election and the Russian collusion attempt to remove Trump.
00:24:17.020It is behind the two failed impeachment attempts takes you to the what I think is widespread fraud in the 2020 election that was abetted by COVID-19 restrictions on the country, which destroyed Donald Trump's campaigning style.
00:24:38.820He had to shut down his famous rallies as soon as he as soon as the COVID restrictions were over and he and he began campaigning again in 2020 in his set piece rallies.
00:24:51.040It's very it's an interesting phenomena that I noticed.
00:24:54.380But then it takes you through the the January 6th adventure, the efforts by the deep state to insist over and over again that the formation of alternative elector slates is somehow seditious or or traitorous, which it's not.
00:25:13.380It's a long legal history of it in the United States when a state's election results are being challenged in the courts.
00:25:23.300And you don't know the outcome of those challenges.
00:25:25.980You would form a electoral board of electors for the Electoral College as a precaution in the event that you won your litigation.
00:25:34.500But they wanted to put, you know, Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and many fine Michigan Republicans completely put them in jail.
00:25:47.500So and then, of course, it takes us to the the the January 6th investigation of Trump by Jack Smith, the the so-called documents case, which makes no sense at all, because there is no reason to launch a raid on Mar-a-Lago, the home of a former president.
00:26:04.540And we learned just last week that those that the senior reaches the FBI argue with the Justice Department were opposed to raiding Trump's property, said that there was not probable cause to do so.
00:26:15.700They were overruled in that shocking act on a former president.
00:26:20.140And again, the claim that was that he had held on to classified documents that he wasn't entitled to have.
00:26:27.460But under the Presidential Records Act, it is absolutely true that he's entitled to have any docket he wants, that he he can declassify documents simply by touching, simply by having and declaring it declassified.
00:26:43.820It's interesting that the judge in my case, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, also the judge who sat in judgment of Paul Manafort, a total partisan, a vicious, vicious, Trump hating partisan.
00:26:58.220Even she ruled in a previous case that President Bill Clinton was entitled to have classified documents anywhere he wanted them.
00:27:09.120He had them in his sock draw in Chappaqua, New York.
00:27:13.260So Trump was entitled to have whatever documents.
00:27:15.760There was never any read for the invasive raid on Mar-a-Lago.
00:27:20.460The FBI rooted through Melania's underwear draw the same way they rooted through my wife's underwear draw after they stormed our home at six o'clock in the morning.
00:27:32.800And of course, that therefore means that the conspiracy, which is ongoing, I would argue, continues to Florida, making the U.S. attorney, Jasis Quonis, for the Southern District of Florida, the perfect person to prosecute these crimes.
00:27:47.500I specifically say that the classified documents as released by Hillary Clinton, pardon me, as released by Tulsi Gabbard, and additional information as released regarding Hillary Clinton, demonstrate without any question whatsoever that there was a seditious conspiracy, that they knowingly used two places of fabricated evidence, the so-called Steele dossier,
00:28:11.380which was paid for by Hillary Clinton and alleged that Donald Trump, while visiting Russia as a private businessman, had dallied with Russian prostitutes, including the salacious claim that Trump watched these prostitutes urinate on a bed previously employed by President or used by President Barack Obama on an official visit.
00:28:34.280This was a completely fabricated report.
00:28:36.940And then there was the false claim that the Russians had conducted an online hack of the Democrat National Committee, and that information had somehow made its way to WikiLeaks and perhaps even to the Trump campaign.
00:32:52.180Some advisors suggest that Maduro could be allowed to remain.
00:32:57.680Others say that he should be allowed to leave but retain no wealth or power.
00:33:02.820Just leave without and get safe passage.
00:33:06.300Others insist on his complete removal.
00:33:09.460But then what would happen if he did leave?
00:33:12.140Maria Karina Machado, who, of course, was given the Nobel Peace Prize, who has dedicated that prize to President Trump.
00:33:19.480Many argue that she won the last real election.
00:33:23.260The Maduro and the Chavistas had to cheat to hold on to it.
00:33:28.220Some argue she should be one of, say, nine commissioners who have a transitory period in which they prepare for new elections.
00:33:37.080A lot of this is about the oil, folks.
00:33:39.100There's a lot of powerful interests in Washington who are looking at those oil deposits and those oil wells in Venezuela.
00:33:48.720Although Venezuela makes far, far more money through narco trafficking than they could even make as one of the oil, the country's oil producers.
00:33:57.100Also, their crude is not as desirable as the crude oil from, say, Nigeria, where they have what they call bonnie-like crude.
00:34:08.780It is an oil, a natural oil with a much lower sulfur content and therefore costs much less to refine into products like gasoline and motor oil and other products.
00:34:22.680So it is going to be very interesting to watch this particular war.
00:34:29.540I was thinking about a twilight moment, a twilight zone moment in my life.
00:34:36.060I was working for the United Bermuda Party.
00:34:38.040I represented them in two parliamentary elections.
00:34:41.000They were the multiracial and more conservative free enterprise pro-U.S. party in Bermuda.
00:34:51.140John Swan, their very charismatic and photogenic premier, was my client and their candidate.
00:34:59.700He brought a great growth and stability to Bermuda.
00:35:02.920But there were only two flights out of the airport in Bermuda.
00:35:09.320It was a small facility, a chain link fence.
00:35:14.580And there was one flight a day to New York and one flight a day to Washington where I lived.
00:35:21.200And I rushed to the airport to get the flight.
00:35:27.440I was assigned C – it was both American Airlines flights.
00:35:30.980I was assigned C-16C, which was interesting because 16C was the famous rule number that the Reagan forces introduced at the 76th Convention to try to require that General Ford name his running mate prior to the ballot for president.
00:35:48.340Because Ford had promised the vice president to at least five people in order to beat Reagan at the 76th Convention.
00:35:55.620So I went to – got on the plane and I went to my seat and there was a man sitting in it.
00:36:00.940And I said, pardon me, I think that may be my seat.
00:36:04.300And he pulled out his ticket and it was – he was in the right seat.
00:36:37.980He says, you know, one of the things that always confounded my wife and I, we kept getting invited to state dinners and other events at the Reagan White House.
00:36:59.160What are the odds I went to seat 16C on the other American flight, which went to Washington, D.C.?
00:37:06.620By the way, the United Bermuda Party won both elections under my leadership and would go on to be a solid party for the country.
00:37:15.920But ultimately, even Bermuda would lurch to the left, and its tourism industry would get hurt very badly because of that lurch to the left.
00:37:25.980Thanks for joining us today in The Stone Zone.
00:37:28.040Until we meet again, God bless you and Godspeed.
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